Linux/OpenGL: ONLY DomIII does not run! Why?

[Leif_-]

Chazar said:
Here they are, but I do not understand it really. However I can tell that they seem to use different libraries for libGL.so.1! How do I fix that? Bending links?

Yes, that's the easiest. You'll want to replace /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 with a soft-link that points to /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 and the same for libGLU.so.1

"man ln" if you need to know how to create soft links. (I'd give you the exact command, but I'm not at a linux box right now, and don't remember the exact syntax in my head.)

[Chazar]

Doesn't work: If I bend the symbolic link ("ln -s source target") to

/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGl.so.1

(which,btw, were both links to libGL.so.1.2 in their respective directories), then Dom2 runs fast again without troubles, but Dom3 aborts with the same invalid pointer error reported by glibc that I described two posts ago... It prints a backtrace though, which I attach as a txt-file to this post.

However, I did not bend the link for libGLU.so.1, because I cannot find another libGLU -file anywhere else?

Thanks for the help! I understand that people here cannot fix particulars to my linux distribution, but I need at least know what questions I should ask elsewhere in forums concerned with my linux distribution, with the questions not being particular with Dominions. I mean, since other openGL games run, people elsewhere will just tell me to ask the game's developer. So that is why I wonder where Dominions is different...

in reply to Johan K:
the zbuffer switch only helped a tiny bit, but even in 640x480 with -xxx and all quality settings to "very low", the battle graphics benchmark is at ~2fps, whereas Dom2 runs at 14 fps with high battle graphics, best quality filter, and fullscreen 1680x1050.

[Leif_-]

Well, in that case, make a backup of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 and overwrite the original with /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2

[Chazar]

Leif_- said:
Well, in that case, make a backup of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 and overwrite the original with /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2

I did this as you wrote, just to be sure, but it produces exactly the same result as bending the symbolic links:

• Dom2 runs fast now
• Dom3 aborts with invalid pointer error

So I did alter the symbolic links correctly the first time.

Why do I get this invalid pointer error with Dom3 only? Dom2 at other programs runs fine!

[Leif_-]

No idea. The only other advice I can give you is to try and remove the libGL.so* files in /usr/lib, but I would be surprised if that solved the problem.